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...dense fog; nine o'clock in the evening; the Santa Barbara Channel; 19 vessels of Destroyer Division 11 of the Battle Fleet speeding southward, bound from San Francisco to the San Diego base; 20 knots speed. Suddenly the leading boat struck the rocks, then the next, the next, the next. . . Seven were aground, piled on the rocks and beach, neatly at intervals of about 250 feet. The Delphy's siren warned the other twelve from the rocks...
When the great San Francisco earthquake and fire took place on April 18, 1906, the Japanese Red Cross sent $100,000 for relief. The loss of life at San Francisco was only about 500, and the earthquake was slight as compared with that in Japan. The chief damage was caused by the fire which followed. For several days great numbers of people had no shelter; cooking was done in the streets to avert fire danger, since the water supply had been cut off. A few looters, rifling wrecked houses and dead bodies were shot; food, and even more, water...
...Boston 42 4:36 " Buffalo 45 4:31 " Washington 50 4:39 " Chicago 52 3:26 " St. Paul 51 3:15 "; St. Louis 60 3:29 "; Atlanta 64 3:43 " New Orleans 76 3:44 " Denver 71 2:09 " Salt Lake City 77 1:56 " Seattle 74 12:31 " San Francisco 96 12:44 " Los Angeles 99 12:57 " San Diego 100 12:58 " The Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island...
Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter, flying in an Army de Haviland over San Diego, broke all previous endurance records by staying up for nearly 45 hours. Incidentally Smith and Richter broke speed records in covering distances of 2,500, 3,000, 3,500 and 4,000 kilometers. But most important of all, they achieved a complete demonstration of the possibility of refuelling from the air. Twice they received gasoline from a sister ship above them and they even got a nice, hot breakfast on a third aerial contact. The extension of this system of refuelling opens new vistas...
...case did the aeroplanes carrying mail across the country need more than 30 hours to complete the trip. In one case the trip was made in 26 hours and 9 minutes-41 minutes less than the transcontinental flight record. Of course, the corollary of this attainment was that San Francisco and New York read each other's newspapers hardly more than 24 hours after publication. As the telegraph, cable and wireless have speeded up news transmission to those department stores of knowledge, the daily newspapers, so the aeroplane, it seems, will accelerate the news department stores' deliveries...